The ramblings of one home-brew electronics, firmware engineer and pilot.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Beacon Power Output

My Propeller beacon is now on the air on 30 metres. Currently running QRSS near the bottom of the band (10.140.000) sending "KO7M CN87" in 5 hz FSK. Would love to have any reception reports. Currently running around 7 mW into a fence-mounted vertical. SWR is 1:1 fortunately. :) I will from time-to-time (on a whim) reconfigure it as I am now working on getting the WSPR beacon code to be autonomous which involves figuring out how to do the strict WSPR timing of transmissions.